Japan Flora: Stems 70-100 cm. long, densely cobwebby; lower cauline leaves lanceolate, 22-33 cm. long, narrowly long-acuminate, short- petiolate or sessile, pinnatifid, the lobes 5 or 6 pairs, ovate, short-acuminate, irregularly 34obulate, loosely cobwebby on both sides, the spines very stout, 8-16 mm. long, the median leaves very long-acuminate; involucres campanulate-globose, slightly cotwebby, about 1.9 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide; bracts 6- seriate, the outer elongate, linear-lanceolate, the median elon­gate, ovate or oblong-acuminate, erect or sometimes recurved; corollas purplish, 17-21 mm. long.  Oct-Nov.

Kyushu (Satsuma and Oosumi Prov.).